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This year is the 80th anniversary of the legendary folk music label Topic Records, and we’ll have more to say about that soon.  Their roster of artists is quite phenomenal – The Watersons, Martin Carthy, Shirley […]

Where do songs come from ?  For Patty Griffin the answer, for this song at least, was from the half line “Isn’t she a river?”  After that, she says, “the rest sort of followed.  Sometimes songs are […]

Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples wrote this song, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Kennedy Center Honoree Mavis Staples really nailed it live at The Union Chapel last year.  It features on her […]

This is something different – Beat Circus will be releasing ‘These Wicked Things‘, the third in the band’s Weird American Gothic trilogy, on March 22nd.  The album is an immersive experience, it’s a story told like […]

Lucille Furs are an LA based band who….you know what ?  Singer Trevor Newton Pritchett has actually provided the perfect band description himself “You might hear the Zombies for their kind of haunting and contemplative quality” […]